none of your business wrote:
>
> On Jul 21, 8:51 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> "Curry, tumeric, grapefruit, and yellow onions would certainly
> be on the list because they interefere with
> chemotherapy."
> What kind of chemotherapy? do you know what drugs this person is on? I
> don't, I do know when I had my chemo, I was eating 1-2 grapefruits a
> day for 2 months... doctors knew and didn't tell me it interfered with
> anything.

There's a phenomenon called multidrug resistance.
When you become resistant to one drug, you become
resistant to all of them. Certain components
of common foods stimulate the SXR receptor, which
initiates the cascade of events which characterize
multidrug resistance, specifically transcriptional
up-regulation of the drug transporter P-glycoprotein
and the drug metabolizer CYP3A4.

Without specific information to the contrary,
it would be a very bad idea to eat foods which
interfere with the regulation of this mechanism.

Apparently, you disagree with this. Upon what
information do you assert that it is okay to eat
foods that stimulate SXR or in other ways affect
drug clearance from the body?

If you've got specific information to the
contrary, I'd like to hear it, because it
sounds to me like you are speaking out of
ignorance. Dangerous ignorance.